Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 1199 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herb to 20 cm high; stems decumbent to erect, usually several, simple or sparsely divaricate-branched, white-woolly; leaves narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, attenuate at the base, apiculale, 7-16 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, whitish-woolly on both surfaces.

Capitula pale-yellow, in clusters of 8-20, 0.5-1.2 cm diam.; involucre 4-6 mm long, 5-angled, pyramidal; bracts elliptic, 2.5-4.6 mm long, keeled, tapered into slightly recurved awns c. 1 mm long, yellowish, cobwebby, widely spreading in fruit; female florets 5-11; bisexual florets 4-7, 4-merous.

Achenes ellipsoidal, c. 0.75 mm long, very sparsely papillose, brownish; pappus of white barbellate bristles to 3 mm long.

Distribution:  In scrub, pasture and weedy open ground. S.Aust.: NL, MU, YP, SE.   Native to southern Europe, Mediterranean region and south-western Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Oct. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available